Read selections from
Pierce's The
People's Common Sense
Medical Adviser; or,
Medicine Explained,
(below) 1895, Buffalo, New
York, from Pierce's own
press at his World's
Dispensary Medical
Association: "Spermatorrhea'
(loss of semen without
copulation, which usually
means masturbation),
portrait
of Pierce, and his hospital.
See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's
letter appealing for
patients, Lydia
E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and Orange
Blossom medicine,
Dr. E. C. Abbey's The
Sexual System and Its
Derangements, which
emphasises masturbation,
as doe Dr. Pierce, and
several small
boxes of old
American patent medicine
for women.
And, of course, the
first Tampax
AND - special for you!
- the American fax
tampon, from the early
1930s, which also came in
bags.
See a Modess True
or False? ad in The
American Girl magazine,
January 1947, and actress
Carol
Lynley in "How Shall
I Tell My Daughter"
booklet ad (1955) - Modess
. . . . because ads
(many dates).
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Dr. R.
V. Pierce's patent
medicine empire and
hospital, often
concerned with women's
diseases, cancer,
digestive illness,
fatigue,
headache, hysteria,
female weakness,
gynecology, obstetrics,
nervous disorders,
childbirth, and
menstruation
Portrait
and signature of Dr.
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
appears at the
front of his The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser
(U.S.A., 1895),
below. I find
the signature
interesting with
the
variable-width
line, showing
the effect of a
flexible-nib
pen.
SarahAnne
Hazlewood
generously
donated the
Dr.Pierce
material to
this museum.
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